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  1. Semantic-Aware Guided Drone Exploration for Language-Conditioned 3D Indoor Mapping

    May 22, 2026Nitin Vegesna, Avideh ZakhorAerial RoboticsUAV Navigation

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA

  2. Superhuman Safe and Agile Racing through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    May 21, 2026Ismail Geles, Leonard Bauersfeld, Markus Wulfmeier +1Aerial RoboticsMulti-Agent Coordination

    Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland · Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom

  3. Non-Contact Vibration-Based Damage Detection of Civil Structures Using a Cost-Effective Autonomous UAV

    May 21, 2026Javier Becerril, Maximiliano Vargas, Jennifer Herrera +6Aerial RoboticsStructural Health Monitoring

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), Edinburg, TX, USA. · Department of Mechanical Engineering at UTRGV. · Department of Civil Engineering at UTRGV. +1

  4. Distributed Multi-Coverage for Robot Swarms

    May 20, 2026Mariem Guitouni, Aaron T. BeckerAerial RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    University of Houston, Texas, USA, 77204

  5. Flying Together: Human-Guided Immersive Shared Control for Aerial Robot Teams in Unknown Environments

    May 20, 2026Lou De Bel-Air, Luca Morando, Ruitao Chen +7Multi-Robot Motion PlanningAerial Robotics

    New York University, NY 10012, USA · Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Station 9 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland · University of California Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

  6. Modeling and Control of a Pneumatic Morphing Soft Quadrotor based on the SOFA Framework for Dynamic Soft Robotic Simulation

    May 20, 2026F. Labra Caso, V. Sumathy, P. Ferrentino +3Aerial RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Robotics & AI Luleå University of Technology · IMEC Center VUB Brussels University

  7. Aero-World: Action-Conditioned Aerial Video Generation from Inertial Controls

    May 19, 2026Abdul Mohaimen Al Radi, Kunyang Li, Yuzhang Shang +2Action-Conditioned Video GenerationAerial Robotics

    Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University of Central Florida

  8. Self-assembling Modular Aerial Robot for Versatile Aerial Tasks

    May 19, 2026Junichiro Sugihara, Masaki Kitagawa, Jinjie Li +4Aerial RoboticsModular Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo,Tokyo, Japan. · Department of Mechano Informatics, The University of Tokyo,Tokyo, Japan.

  9. Neuromorphic Control of a Flapping-Wing Robot on Resource-Constrained Hardware

    May 19, 2026Rim El Filali, Chenrui Feng, Chao Gao +1Efficient Neural Network InferenceAerial Robotics

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China · Xinchen Qihang Inc., Beijing, PR China

  10. CosFly-Track: A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Dataset for UAV Visual Tracking via Multi-Constraint Trajectory Optimization

    May 18, 2026Xiangyue Wang, Hanxuan Chen, Songsheng Cheng +7Aerial RoboticsTrajectory Optimization

    Autel Robotics · Nanjing University · Peking University +2

  11. Distributed 3D Leader-Follower Formation Control with Field-of-View Safety via Control Barrier Functions

    May 17, 2026Immanuel R. Santjoko, Richie R. Suganda, Miao Pan +1Multi-Robot Formation ControlAerial Robotics

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA · Department of Engineering Technology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA

  12. DeTrack: A Benchmark and Altitude-Aware Dual World Model for Drone-embodied Tracking

    May 17, 2026Guyue Hu, Haoming Liu, Siyuan Song +3Aerial RoboticsWorld Models for Robotics

    School of Artificial Intelligence, State Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Protection Technology, and Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Security Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China · Hefei Si Valley Technology Development Co., Ltd, and also with the Institute of Embodied Intelligence, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Protection Technology, and Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Multimodal Cognitive Computation, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China

  13. Constrained MPC-Based Motion Planning for Morphing Quadrotors in Ultra-Narrow Passages under Limited Perception

    May 15, 2026Harsh Modi, Xiao Liang, Minghui ZhengAerial RoboticsConstrained Motion Planning

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA · Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

  14. Optimizing Line Segment Inspection with Limited-Range Drones

    May 15, 2026José-Miguel Díaz-Báñez, José-Manuel Higes, Alina Kasiuk +1Aerial RoboticsCombinatorial Optimization

    Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Seville, Spain

  15. Wind-Aware Optimal Trajectory Planning for Efficient Gliding of Fixed-Wing Aerial Systems

    May 15, 2026Luca Morando, Nishanth Bobbili, Giuseppe LoiannoAerial RoboticsTrajectory Optimization

    New York University, NY 10012, USA · University of California Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

  16. DiffVAS: Diffusion-Guided Visual Active Search in Partially Observable Environments

    May 15, 2026Anindya Sarkar, Srikumar Sastry, Aleksis Pirinen +2Visual NavigationAerial Robotics

    Washington University in St. Louis, United States · RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Climate AI Nordics, Sweden

  17. Where to Perch in a Tree: Vision-Guidance for Tree-Grasping Drones

    May 14, 2026Alex Dunnett, Leonie Bottomley, Mirko Kovac +1Aerial Robotics

    Department of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering, University of Bristol. · Laboratory of Sustainability Robotics at Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA); and Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne (EPFL).

  18. Learning Cross-Coupled and Regime Dependent Dynamics for Aerial Manipulation

    May 14, 2026Rishabh Dev Yadav, Samaksh Ujjawal, Sihao Sun +2Aerial RoboticsOnline System Identification

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchaster, U.K. · Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands · International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad. +1

  19. Control of Fully Actuated Aerial Vehicles: A Comparison of Model-based and Sensor-based Dynamic Inversion

    May 12, 2026Ali Sidar Yilmaz, Buday Turan, Lukas Pries +1Aerial RoboticsRobust Control

    Professorship of Autonomous Aerial Systems, School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Lise-Meitner-Str. 9, 85521 Ottobrunn, Germany

  20. Computational Design of a Low-Visibility UAV Using a Human-Aligned Perceptual Metric

    May 11, 2026Jingxian Wang, Chen Yu, David Matthews +3Aerial RoboticsRobotics

    Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

  21. A Cross-Layered Multi-Drone Coordination for Medical Supply Delivery during Disaster Response Management

    May 10, 2026Aneesh Calyam, Subrahmanya Chandra Bhamidipati, Zack Murry +1Aerial RoboticsUAV Navigation

    University of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

  22. Model-Reference Adaptive Flight Control of a 95-mg Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Aerial Robot

    May 8, 2026Francisco M. F. R. Gonçalves, Conor K. Trygstad, Néstor O. Pérez-ArancibiaRobot Trajectory TrackingAerial Robotics

    School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University (WSU), Pullman, WA 99164-2920, USA

  23. AirBender: Adaptive Transportation of Bendable Objects Using Dual UAVs

    May 7, 2026Jiawei Xu, Longsen Gao, Rafael Fierro +1Robot Trajectory TrackingAerial Robotics

    Autonomous and Intelligent Robotics Laboratory (AIRLab), Lehigh University, PA, 18015, USA · Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA

  24. An Aerial Manipulator for Perception-Driven Flower Targeting Toward Contactless Pollination in Vertical Farming

    May 7, 2026Chenzhe Jin, Zhuohang Wu, Yifan Cai +4Aerial RoboticsAgricultural Robotics

    Department of Computer Science University College London London, United Kingdom · Department of Artificial Intelligence University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  25. Accurate Trajectory Tracking with MPCC for Flapping-Wing MAVs

    May 7, 2026Charbel Toumieh, Jack Zeng, Niel Mistry +1Robot Trajectory TrackingAerial Robotics

    Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

  26. A Comparative Study of INDI and NDI with Nonlinear Disturbance Observer for Aerial Robotics

    May 7, 2026Benedetta Rota, Mirko Mizzoni, Amr Afifi +2Aerial RoboticsRobust Control

    Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy · Robotics and Mechatronics group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science (EEMCS), University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands · School of Aerospace, Mechanical, and Mechatronic Engineering (AMME), Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

  27. Low-Cost Stereo Vision for Robust 3D Positioning of Thin Radiata Pine Branches in Autonomous Drone Pruning

    May 6, 2026Yida Lin, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang +2Aerial RoboticsStereo Matching

    Centre of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence & School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand · Computer Vision Research Lab & Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Canterbury University, PO Box 8041, Christchurch, New Zealand

  28. Say the Mission, Execute the Swarm: Agent-Enhanced LLM Reasoning in the Web-of-Drones

    May 5, 2026Andrea Iannoli, Lorenzo Gigli, Luca Sciullo +2Aerial RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bologna Bologna, Italy

  29. Sensorless State Estimation and Control for Agile Cable-Suspended Payload Transport by Quadrotors

    May 5, 2026Ana Maria Nascimento, Augusto Sales, Antonio Marcus Lima +1Aerial RoboticsNonlinear MPC

  30. Evidence-Based Landing Site Selection and Vison-Based Landing for UAVs in Unstructured Environments

    May 2, 2026Sina Sajjadi, Jacopo Panerati, Sina Soleymanpour +3Aerial RoboticsVision-Based Robot Control

    Aerospace Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, QC, Canada · Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada